Kevin Ramsey

PhD candidate [defense scheduled for Nov. 2009] 
Department of Geography

University of Washington

Lecturer
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program
University of Washington, Bothell

Box 353550, Seattle, WA 98195
kramsey@u.washington.edu
206-713-4977

 


CV/resume (doc)

Teaching

  • Contemporary Political Ideas and Ideologies: Democracy in Theory and Practice (BIS 362, Fall 2007)
  • Institutions and Social Change: Making Environmental Citizens (BIS 304, Winter 2008)
  • Topics in Geography: Community Mapping and GIS (BIS 314, Spring 2008, Winter 2009)
  • Topics in Geography: The Seattle Region (BIS 314, Spring 2009)
  • Geographic Information Systems (BIS 342, Winter 2010)

Research interests

  • Urban environmental politics
  • Democracy, governance, and governmentality
  • 'Critical' geographic information science
  • The use of geographic information systems (GIS) in participatory research and activism
  • Web mapping and web tools for facilitating public involvement in urban planning

Current and recent research efforts

Selected publications

  • Ramsey, K., (forthcoming) Urban Waterfront Transformation as a Politics of Mobility: Lessons from Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Debate. In G. Desfor, Q. Stevens, J. Laidley & D. Schubert (Eds.), Fixity and Flow of Urban Waterfront Change. London: Routlege.

  • Ramsey, K. S., & Wilson, M. W. (forthcoming). Rethinking the 'informed' participant: Precautions and recommendations for the design of online deliberation. In T. Davies & B. Noveck (Eds.), Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

  • Ramsey, K.S. (2009). GIS, Modeling, and Politics: On the Tensions of Collaborative Decision Support. Journal of Environmental Management, 90(6) 1972 – 1980. Special Issue on "Collaborative GIS: Perspectives on decision support and visualization"

  • Ramsey, K. (2008). A Call for Agonism: GIS and the Politics of Collaboration Environment and Planning A, 40, 2346-2363.

  • Wilson, M. W. and Ramsey, K. (2008). Integrating online deliberation into transportation investment decision-making: Preliminary reflections on a field experiment. In Proceeding of Tools for Participation, DIAC / Online Deliberation 2008.

  • Nyerges, T., Ramsey, K., & Wilson, M. W. (2006). Design considerations for an internet portal to support public participation in transportation improvement decision making. In S. Dragicevic & S. Balram (Eds.), Collaborative GIS. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc.

  • Nyerges, T., Jankowski, P., Tuthill, D., & Ramsey, K., ( 2006). Collaborative water resource decision support: results of a field experiment. Annals of the American Association of Geographers

  • Jankowski, P., Robischon, S., Tuthill, D., Nyerges, T., & Ramsey, K. (2006) Design considerations and evaluation of a collaborative, spatio-temporal decision support system. Transactions in GIS

 

Last updated: October 28, 2009